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Recording

"Souling" Songs From Allison Crowe

Source: Adrian du Plessis
November 10, 2014

Allison Crowe’s gorgeous voice brings tidings of comfort and joy with Souling—her 11th full album release. The artist, one of our greatest living musicians, singer-songwriters and performers, has always created authentic music. With this newest song set her voice is heard wholly a cappella. The songs themselves have a purity of expression—a 21st century take on music of faith and spirit—sounds and themes aired by carollers and soulers of old. The genesis of Souling is found in the bond Allison ...

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Video / DVD

"16 Songs" Video Album From Allison Crowe = Music + Movie Magic

Source: Adrian du Plessis
September 23, 2014

"Soulful. Alive. Joyous. Grievous. Real, true, music is what I want to make." That’s how Allison Crowe framed things near the start of this century before launching Rubenesque Records Ltd., one of the world’s truly independent music labels. Through legendary live performances, broadcasts, and a dynamic oeuvre of recordings, globally-acclaimed and loved, Crowe’s distinguished herself among today’s finest songwriters, recording and concert acts, and as a supreme interpreter of popular song. Combining versatility and virtuosity, the amazing Canadian musician transmits ...

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Performance / Tour

Allison Crowe Drives To New Lands: “heavy Graces” Tour On Deck

Source: Adrian du Plessis
April 24, 2014

She comes from a land of ice and snow. Some years more-so than others. And, like such phenomena, Allison Crowe’s preternatural talent, and her peerless body of music, is marked by a pure, crystalline, uniqueness. “How can someone so small and young have such a big voice and write such heavy duty songs?,” legendary West-coast Canada musician and publisher Barry Newman found himself wondering upon discovering a teen-aged Crowe on a Vancouver Island stage in the year 2000. For a ...

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Performance / Tour

Allison Crowe European Tour - May 2014

Source: Adrian du Plessis
February 28, 2014

Enriched by almost two years of focus on recording, film and theatre productions at home in Canada, Allison Crowe and the A-team, guided by the legendary road-meister Axel Dollheiser, resume international concert touring this Spring. First up – May 2014 brings a return to some favourite venues in Germany and Italy, alongside wunderbar new music rooms: 03.05 - Siebenklang Musikfestspiele - Bernau bei Berlin; 07.05 - Jazzlokal Mampf – Frankfurt; 11.05 - Jazzhaus – Freiburg im ...

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